Quotes About Pay

Will I be sensible and pay off the mortgage? Not a chance.

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

Many of the factors that we think will cause motivation, such as fair pay and a good manager, won't make you love your job. Even if you eliminate what makes you dissatisfied, that doesn't make you motivated. It doesn't make your work rewarding. You just are less bothered by things.

Attempting to control simultaneously for part-time versus full-time employment and for the effect of children and domestic responsibilities, another study found "that the gender pay gap is 5 percent for part-time workers age 21–35 without children, under 3 percent for full-time workers age 21–35 without children, and that there is no pay gap for full-time workers age 21–35 living alone.

In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work.

I couldn't believe it. I snagged a bagel and smeared it with cream cheese. It was my first of many, many years of free bagels. (To this day I won't pay for bagels or cream cheese—not when I can score them for free on film sets.)

As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what private foundations working with NGOs can accomplish.

A homer a day will boost my pay.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

Retirement: Twice as much husband, half as much pay.

My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Are you gonna arrest a robber? Know any? My friend Everet stoled a candy bar from the store, but his ma found out and made him go pay for it out of his 'lowance, and he couldn't have candy or nothing for a whole month. You could arrest him. He's over there. He pointed, cheerfully ratting out his pal. It sounds like he's paid his debt to society.

You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER

One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.

Just as infinite access to free music ultimately leads to no one making a living at music anymore, free journalism just doesn't pay for itself - particularly not when a search engine is serving all the ads.

I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

On the campaign trail, [Donald] Trump has threatened a trade war and repeatedly said that Mexico will pay for a wall on the Southern border.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else.